Culture

About the Festival

The legend

[2016-06-07 15:21]

China's Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 9 this year.

Top 10 delicacies

[2016-06-08 07:37]

Top 10 traditional dishes for the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi are to the Dragon Boat Festival what eggs are to Easter or roses to Valentine's Day.

Customs

[2016-06-07 15:21]

As the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu, draws near, people start to commemorate the death of Chinese poet Qu Yuan by colorful customs.

Let's make zongzi

[2016-06-08 13:47]

If the materials are available to you, it is quite possible for you to make zongzi at home; both for pleasure and maybe also to honor the great poet.

Ethnic ways for celebrating

[2016-06-08 16:55]

Apart from the Han people, there are twenty-six ethnic groups also celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on there own ways. Here are 4 of them.

Scan the QR code to read on your smartphone

[2016-06-08 15:22]

Scan the QR code to learn more about the Dragon Boat Festival on your smartphone.

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